What middle name was popular when you were born/young?

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Plus what decade was this.

Louise, Ann. 80s. First names- Louise, Emma, Jane.

50s; I didn't know many of my friends' middle names. Where I did know them, it was usually Mary (my own middle name) - we were Catholic.

Louise, my own first name, was pretty much unused as a first or middle name in the 50s. I didn't know any others as a child and thought my name hideous in comparison to the Deborahs, Sheilas, Shirleys, Valeries and Susans who made up most of my peer group

What I want to know is how can you all remember your friends' middle names so well? Not got the foggiest about most of my friends.

I was in a class of 5 Claires (first names though) a similar number of Richards in my brother's class. (late 70s early 80s)

70s (again)
Jane, Louise (again!)

It was Louise!

Late 80s. Everyone is either Marie, Louise, Anne, Jane or Elizabeth.

Mine is Elizabeth. My sister's is Marie.

Lots of hyphenated -Louise.

And Grace Livin

Makes you wonder about the purpose of middle names !

70s Louise, Anne
Now May, Rose

Grace / may / Mae / rose are all very popular now

But how about boys!

Definitely May/Mae, Rose, and Grace for the babies now. My daughter has Rose

I was born in the early 80's and have Christine myself, but it seems everyone else had Marie.

jie ?80s?in china

I don't remember my friend's middle names, but recall that when I started my degree in 1985 we were given a list of all the students on our course and 7/10 of the female students had the middle name Louise.

I have no idea what middle names any of my DCs (8 and 10) friends have, well just the odd one anyway.

I'm thinking for boys now - Thomas / James / George

Louise or May- mid 80's

My best friend's middle name was Ada. We all took the mick out of her for that! She did have a beautiful first name though.

I know a lot of boys now with James. It goes with most things and makes initials not spell anything, same with Rose.

Early 60s, NZ- Louise (mine), Elizabeth, Mary, Jane, Susan.

I went to a girls school and a very common middle name in my year group was Louise

Elizabeth (80s)

Louise, Elizabeth or Jane.

Paul for a boy.

(1980's).

Oh and Mary used to be a popular middle name for boys in Ireland! Bit mean really...

Jane and Elizabeth was most popular in my group of friends (I felt very left out - mine was quite unusual then, but now every little girl seems to have the same middle name as me, so my parents were clearly 30 years ahead of their time - was born in the late 70s)

That's true, Beck. My Dad was James Alloysius Mary. He never freely admitted that to anybody.

Louise 1981